| 1 | === Global Translator ===
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| 2 | Tags: translator, multilanguage, automatic translator, google translations, babelfish, promt, freetranslations, widget
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| 3 | Author: Davide Pozza
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| 4 | Contributors:
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| 5 | Donate link: http://www.nothing2hide.net/donate_global_translator.php
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| 6 | Requires at least: 2.3
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| 7 | Tested up to: 2.8
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| 8 | Stable Tag: 1.2.5.1
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| 9 |
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| 10 | Automatically translates your blog in 34 different languages!
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| 11 |
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| 12 | == Description ==
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| 13 |
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| 14 | Global Translator automatically translates your blog in the following 41 different languages:
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| 15 | Italian, Korean, Chinese (Simplified), Portuguese, English, German, French, Spanish, Japanese,
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| 16 | Arabic, Russian, Greek, Dutch, Bulgarian, Czech, Croatian, Danish, Finnish, Hindi, Polish, Romanian,
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| 17 | Swedish, Norwegian, Catalan, Filipino, Hebrew, Indonesian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Serbian, Slovak,
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| 18 | Slovenian, Ukrainian, Vietnamese,Albanian,Estonian,Galician,Maltese,Thai,Turkish,Hungarian.
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| 19 |
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| 20 | The number of available translations will depend on your blog language and the translation engine you will chose to use.
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| 21 | Main features:
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| 22 |
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| 23 | * **Four different translation engines**: Google Translation Engine, Babel Fish, Promt, FreeTranslations
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| 24 | * **Search Engine Optimized**: it uses the permalinks by adding the language code at the beginning of all your URI.
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| 25 | For example the english version on www.domain.com/mycategory/mypost will be automatically transformed in
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| 26 | www.domain.com/en/mycategory/mypost
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| 27 | * **Fast Caching System**: new fast, smart, optimized, self-cleaning and built-in caching system. Drastically reduction of the risk of temporarily ban from translation engines.
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| 28 | * **Fully configurable layout**: you can easily customize the appearance of the translation bar by choosing between a TABLE
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| 29 | or DIV layout for the flags bar and by selecting the number of translations to make available to your visitors
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| 30 | * **No database modifications**: Global Translator is not intrusive. It doesn't create or alter any table on your database: this feature permits to obtain better performances.
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| 31 |
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| 32 | **Global Translator is the first real (and free) traffic booster for your blog!**
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| 33 | It can help you to reach a lot of new users and consequently to strongly increase your popularity: if you derive some benefits and if you want to support the development,
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| 34 | please consider to support me with a donation.
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| 35 |
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| 36 | For the latest information and changelog visit the website
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| 37 |
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| 38 | http://www.nothing2hide.net/wp-plugins/wordpress-global-translator-plugin/
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| 39 |
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| 40 |
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| 41 | **A Pro version with full support and additional features is also available!**
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| 42 | Learn more by visiting this page: http://www.nothing2hide.net/global-translator-pro/
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| 43 |
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| 44 |
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| 45 | == Installation ==
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| 46 |
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| 47 | 1. Upload the folder "global-translator" to the "wp-content/plugins" directory.
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| 48 | 2. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress.
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| 49 | 3. From the main menu choose "Options->Global Translator" and select
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| 50 | your blog language and your preferred configuration options then select "Update Options".
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| 51 |
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| 52 | **How to upgrade**
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| 53 |
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| 54 | If upgrading from 0.9 or higher, just overwrite the previous version (don't delete the "cache" directory!!), otherwise uninstall the previous
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| 55 | version and follow the Installation instructions; don't use the automatic upgrade feature or your cache will be erased!
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| 56 |
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| 57 | Starting from 1.0.8 the cache directory has been moved outside the plugin directory in order to support the Wordpress automatic pluging update feature:
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| 58 | the content of the previous existing cache (inside wp-content/plugins/global-translator/cache) will be automatically and progressively moved to the new
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| 59 | cache location (wp-content/gt-cache) but, if you want, you can manually change the cache location by using your ftp client or a shell access.
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| 60 |
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| 61 | == Configuration ==
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| 62 |
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| 63 | If your theme is widged-enabled, just choose "Presentation->Widgets" from the administration main menu
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| 64 | and drag the "Global translator" widget on the preferred position on your sidebar.
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| 65 | If your theme is not widgetized, just add the following php code (usually to the sidebar.php file):
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| 66 |
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| 67 | <?php if(function_exists("gltr_build_flags_bar")) { gltr_build_flags_bar(); } ?>
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| 68 |
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| 69 | After this simple operation, a bar containing the flags that represents all the available translations
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| 70 | for your language will appear on your blog.
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| 71 |
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| 72 | == Frequently Asked Questions ==
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| 73 |
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| 74 | = The full translation process takes a lot of time. Why? =
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| 75 |
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| 76 | In order to prevent from banning by the translation services, only a translation request every 5 minutes will be allowed. This will permit to fully translate
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| 77 | your blog whithout any interruption; this message will completely disappear when all the pages of your blog will be cached.
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| 78 | Remember that this message will also appear if you're currently being banned by the translation engine: this could happen if for example your blog shares the
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| 79 | same ip address with other blogs using older versions of Global Translator.
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| 80 |
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| 81 | = "This page has not been translated yet. The translation process could take a while: please come back later." message when trying to access a translated page =
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| 82 |
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| 83 | Upgrade to 1.0.8 or later. Starting from 1.0.8, a browser asking for a not yet translated page will be warned and redirected in 5 seconds to the translation service
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| 84 | page in order to provide a temporary "backup translation service". Obviously, when the page is translated and saved on your cache directory, this redirection
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| 85 | will disappear and the translated and cleaned page will be served by your blog.
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| 86 |
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| 87 | = I have a Global Translator version prior than 1.0.5 and Google doesn't translate anymore! =
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| 88 |
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| 89 | Starting from 27th of August 2008, Google has introduced a block in order to prevent not human translation requests: just upgrade to 1.0.5 or later.
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| 90 |
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| 91 | = White page or Page Not Found (404) when clicking on a translation flag =
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| 92 |
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| 93 | This could be due to a change of the permalinks structure of your blog, to a conflict with another plugin or to a custom
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| 94 | .htaccess file which doesn't permit Global Translator to add its custom permalink rules. Try to refresh the Global Translator
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| 95 | rewrite rules just pressing the "Update Options" button from the Global Translator admin page. If the problem persists,
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| 96 | try also to deactivate all the other existing plugins and check your .htaccess file and comment out all the non-standard rewrite rules.
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| 97 | If you discover a conflicting plugin please send me an email (davide at nothing2hide.net).
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| 98 |
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| 99 | = "Sorry, the translation engine is temporarily not available. Please try again later" message when using Google Translations engine =
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| 101 | You're using an old version of the plugin. Please upgrade to 1.0 or later.
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| 102 |
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| 103 | = The translated page has a bad/broken layout =
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| 104 |
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| 105 | This is due to the translation engine action. I cannot do anything in order to prevent this problem :-)
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| 106 | I suggest you to try all the translation engines in order to choose the best one for your blog layout
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| 107 |
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| 108 | = I've just changed my permalinks structure or just upgraded Wordpress to a newer version and Global Translator doesn't translate anymore =
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| 110 | Everytime the permalinks structure of your blog changes, the custom rules previously added by Global Translator are overriden.
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| 111 | To solve the problem you must just refresh the Global Translator Options ("Update Options" button) on the administrative area.
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| 112 |
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| 113 | = I've removed one or more available translations but the search engines continue to try to index the corresponding urls =
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| 115 | When you remove one or more translations, the plugin will begin to return a 404 Not Found for all the corresponding translated pages.
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| 116 | In order to notify a search engine that one or more urls are not available anymore you should add a deny rule on your robots.txt file.
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| 117 | For example if you decide to remove the German translation you should modify your robots.txt as follows:
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| 118 | User-agent: *
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| 119 | [....]
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| 120 | Disallow: /de/*
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| 121 |
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| 122 | = How can I discover if my blog is currently banned by the translation engine? =
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| 123 |
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| 124 | Go to the Global Translator admin page. If your blog has been temporarily banned, a warning message will appear inside the "Translation engine connection" section.
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